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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

B is for Brown-water Navy

Quite by accident and without noticing I seem to have built a small fleet of Vietnamese Resistance vessels, gun-smuggling, for the use of!

Atlantic Boat; Atlantic Set; Brown Water Navy; Cake Decoration Figures; Cake Decorations; Celluloid Acetate Figure; Celluloid Nitrate Figure; Celluloid Novelty; Celluloid Toys; Cellulose Acetate; Cellulose Nitrate; Chinese Boat; Fisherman; Fishing Boat; Hong Kong Boat; Japanese Boat; Little Jolly Boat; Mao And The Chinese Revolution; Plastic Toy Novelty; Pleasure Boat; Punting; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tourist Keepsake; Tourist Trinket; Viet Gong; Viet Minh; Vietgong; Vietnam War; Vietnamese Boat;
Top left is a Hong Kong-made cake decoration fisherman on his little boat, based on earlier lead models originally used to decorate bonsai or miniature rock-gardens. Bottom right we have the small vessel from the Atlantic 'Mao and the Chinese Revolution' sets while the other vessel in both shots is a celluloid 'ivorene' touristy keepsake thing (like the little wagons) which may be factory painted, but I suspect a war-gamer's brushwork; from the matt-finish and accuracy!

Atlantic Boat; Atlantic Set; Brown Water Navy; Cake Decoration Figures; Cake Decorations; Celluloid Acetate Figure; Celluloid Nitrate Figure; Celluloid Novelty; Celluloid Toys; Cellulose Acetate; Cellulose Nitrate; Chinese Boat; Fisherman; Fishing Boat; Hong Kong Boat; Japanese Boat; Little Jolly Boat; Mao And The Chinese Revolution; Plastic Toy Novelty; Pleasure Boat; Punting; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tourist Keepsake; Tourist Trinket; Viet Gong; Viet Minh; Vietgong; Vietnam War; Vietnamese Boat;
Seven pieces for the factory glued one, the other having five-pieces for self-assembly in a plastic which doesn't like gluing! The  first - fisherman's boat - is a single moulding with a wire rod, a second wire-rod for fixing in the gravel/cake has been removed.

And the ironic thing is, while I think of them/present them as Vietnamese, one's actually Hong Kong-Chinese, the others Japanese and the third an Italian rendition of a Chinese boat and all pretty fictional/out of scale with the real things; but they look the part!

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